roundtable: Re: MAP memo re: "spectrum fl...

roundtable: Re: MAP memo re: "spectrum fl...

Re: MAP memo re: "spectrum fl...

heiko recktenwald (UZS106@IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de)
Thu, 25 May 95 04:15:46 MEZ 

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Date:         Thu, 25 May 95 04:15:46 MEZ
From: heiko recktenwald <UZS106@IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:      Re: MAP memo re: "spectrum fl...
To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
In-Reply-To:  Message of Wed, 24 May 1995 15:39:49 -0400 from


On Wed, 24 May 1995 15:39:49 -0400 <RznDemoPM@aol.com> said:
>
>After all, vulgar, from its etymological roots, means nothing more
>than popular.  In a properly structured environment, the popular can
>be spectacularly transcendental.  Consider, for instance, the history
>of popular music, which--enabled by its relatively cheap economics--
>periodically breaks free of the marketeers and renews itself in
>astonishing new ways.  Consider just the single example of Frank
>Zappa--what similar figure in film or video is so widely known &
>influential? Contrast this with the more capital-intensive alternatives,
>with their tightly held distribution channels.

Captain Beefhard was even more effective, imho.


>Spectrum is a public resource.  Nobody should be making money off it
>without a substantial portion being redirected to finance nonprofit
>activity.

As it is in the field of local telephone in your country, flat rates etc.
They don't get it here.


>After all, the essence of all cultural expression comes from
>outside the marketplace.  If it were an entity possesed of enlightened
>self-interest, the marketplace itself would agree. Preserving space
>outside the marketplace is essential for nurturing the sources of
>culture expression that the marketplace of tommorrow will exploit.

THE marketplace.. I read, that the best economies in terms of recycling
etc were war-economies. Whould the market have developed tcp/ip ????

Heiko Recktenwald
<uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>

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